The information systems literatur calls for two major shifts in IS management: from DP leadership to line management leadership and from a task-oriented approach to a processoriented approach. Despite the widespread interest in these matters, few empirical studies have dealt with these issues. This paper reports on two exploratory studies which set out to examine use and management of IS in sel...

Environmental issues are nowadays a challenging topic in several research disciplines. Scare resources, environmental pollution, and the rising awareness for resource-friendly behavior guides companies to emphasize environmental aspects in their business decisions and reporting. To achieve this, Information Technology (IT) plays a vital role as an enabler for sophisticated reporting and analyti...

Developing database applications with timeliness requirements is a difficult problem. During the execution of transactions, database applications (with timeliness requirements) have to deal with the possible occurrence of timing failures, when the operations specified in the transaction do not complete within the expected deadlines. In spite of the importance of timeliness requirements in datab...

This paper examines investments in cloud computing using the Benefits Management approach. The major contribution of the paper is to provide a unique insight into how organizations derive value from cloud computing investments. The motivation for writing this paper is to consider the business benefits generated from utilizing cloud computing in a range of organizations. Case studies are used to...

Information systems (IS) offshoring has become a widespread practice and a strategic sourcing choice for many firms. While much has been written by researchers about the factors that lead to successful offshoring arrangements from the client's viewpoint, the vendor's perspective has been largely scarce. The vendor perspective is equally important as offshore IS vendors need to make important de...

in this research we study the influencing factors that have direct effect on successful ais implementing. according to other researches, we specified some factors that are most efficacious ones, and categorized them through three main hypotheses of human recourses, technical characteristics of ais and management strategies. to study various dimensions of these groups we determined some other fa...

the current limited focus on management in global health activities is highly problematic given the amounts of financial and human resources that are pouring into health system strengthening interventions and the complexity of clinical operations across settings. by ensuring that public health and healthcare practitioners in domestic and international settings receive management training in the...